The bundle contains the following sixteen texts, mostly on Jyotiṣa, with some specimens of the early Malayalam literature: [Fragment of a Jyotiṣa text] in Malayalam and Sanskrit (images 0006-0009). [Fragment of a śivastuti] (images 0010-0013). [Fragment of a Malayalam version of the Rāmāyaṇa] in Malayalam (images 0014-0029). [Fragment of a Malayalam version of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa] (images 0030-0059). [Fragment of a Malayalam version of the Rāmāyaṇa] (images 0060-0080). Kāladīpa - in Malayalam and Sanskrit. For this text the Gregorian calendar date provided: '1680?'. Alternative calendar data provided: 'Dated Kollam 855, ciṅṅaṃ 5; but this date sounds very early for Thrissur/Malayalam manuscript (images 0082-0103). [Fragment of a Jyotiṣa text] - in Malayalam and Sanskrit (images 0104-0105). [Fragment of a Jyotiṣa text] (images 0106-0109). Gaṇāṣṭaka - brief stotra for Ganeśa (images 0110-0112). Sarasvatyaṣṭaka (images 0112-0113). [Fragment of a Jyotiṣa text] - in Malayalam (images 0114-0119). [Fragment of a Jyotiṣa text Cāndravākya] (f° 10r: end of a section called "cāndravākya") - in Malayalam and Sanskrit (images 0120-0139). [Fragment of a Vedic text] (images 0140-0178). Yajurvedabhāṣya – Śrīrudrapraśna by Bhaṭṭabhāskara [f° 1 to 5r: 1st anuvāka; f° 5r to 8v: 2nd anuvāka; f° 8v to 11v: 3rd anuvāka; f° 11v to 13r: 4th anuvāka; f° 13r to 14r: 5th anuvāka; f° 14r to 15r: 6th anuvāka; f° 15r to 18v: 7th anuvāka; f° 23v: end of 9th anuvāka] (images 0179-0222). Muhūrtabhāṣā- in Malayalam and Sanskrit (images 0223-0236). [Fragment of a Vedic text] (images 0237-0254). Almost all texts are incomplete. The manuscript is partly damaged.
Extent: 156 leaves (1 blank leaf, 31 stray leaves, all in disorder and by different hands).
Size and dimensions of original material: W 3 x L 16; W 4.1 x L 24; W 4.1 x L 29.2; W 4.2 x L 31.2; W 3.8 x L 27.6; W 4.2 x L 31; W 4.3 x L 31.9; W 4 x L 28.9; W 4.8 x L 35; W 4.8 x L 37.2; W 3.9 x L 33.3; W 4.1 x L 36.5.
Condition of original material: Partly damaged.
Arrangement: Shelf number 3.
Alternative calendar and date: Malayalam
Author(s)/Creator(s): Bhaṭṭabhāskara.
Scribe(s): Śrīkaṇṭha (cf. B-0498).
Original institution reference: B0686 (A-P).
